OUTRAGED residents in two Bromsgrove villages have launched a campaign to fight moves to extend a quarry and build a recycling plant on their doorsteps.

OUTRAGED residents in two Bromsgrove villages have launched a campaign to fight moves to extend a quarry and build a recycling plant on their doorsteps.

More than 400 people living in Fairfield and Wildmoor have signed petitions in protest.

Tonight they are set to don protest T-shirts to meet with chiefs at Walsall-based Jack Allen Holdings Ltd, which has lodged the application.

The company will reveal its plans at Fairfield Village Hall at 7pm.

Kevin McCall, who lives in Swan Lane near the quarry, and his partner Jayne Griffiths launched the campaign.

"We estimate around 200 lorries a day will be servicing the recycling plant, which will create untold misery for residents with the levels of noise, dust and traffic," said Mr McCall.

If given the go-ahead, the scheme would see Wildmoor Quarry, off Sandy Lane, being extended into green belt land to make it four times its current size and eextract an extra four-and-a-half million tonnes of sand.

The new recycling plant would also be created at Wildmoor, operating between 7am and 10pm, seven days a week.

A Jack Allen Holdings Ltd spokesman said: "We undertook a full environmental impact assessment in relation to these proposals and offered to install screens around the site to minimise its affect on residents."

The plan will be discussed by Worcestershire County Council planners on October 31.